- Lagos state commissioner of police Imohimi Edgar said over 120 youths have renounced membership of different cult groups in Ikorodu area of the state
- Edgar noted that their voluntary renouncement would help them go through a vocational training
- He also said police would obtain data of all the repented cultists so as to monitor their activities
No fewer than 120 youths on Wednesday, November 29, renounced membership of different cult groups and surrendered their weapons at Imota in Ikorodu area of Lagos state.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the renunciation by the cultists followed recent violent clash between rival cult gangs which claimed three lives in the area.
Addressing the repented cultists, Lagos state commissioner of police Imohimi Edgar said their voluntary renouncement would be accompanied by vocational training to enable them acquire new skills.
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Edgar said: ''When I assumed duty as commissioner of police in Lagos, I discovered that cultism and drug abuse are the most challenging crimes.
''The important thing is that the process whereby youths are now willingly renouncing cultism to take up vocational skills have started.
''The vocational job is to be instituted by the council chairman, the lawmaker and other stakeholders in Imota.We want a 24-hours economic and nightlife in Lagos.''
He said that the police would obtain data of all the repented cultists so as to monitor their activities for the safety of lives and property in the area.
He, however, urged community leaders to partner with the police and other security agencies to sensitise other cultists to renounce their membership and surrender their arms.
The paramount ruler of Imota, Oba Ajibade Agoro, urged youths in the community to renounce cultism and embrace peace, adding that without peace there can not be development.
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The monarch said that he would use traditional ancestral means to make the repented cultists swear an oath not to return to cultism.
“People can not be living in fear and contribute immesely to the development of the community,” said the royal father.
Nurudeen Solaja, the lawmaker representing Ikorodu 2 Constituency in the Lagos State House of Assembly, said that the renouncement was a welcome development.
Meanwhile, NAIJ.com had reported that the Badoo cultist group struck allegedly killed a Redeemed Christian Church of God pastor on Sunday, November 26.
The cultist group smashed the head of the pastor identified as Victor Kanayo with two big stones, which were said to have been found beside him.
NAIJ.com visits family attacked by Badoo cult group - on NAIJ.com TV:
Source: Naija.ng
